Abstract
Files on early AIDS/insurance activism and ACT-UP files on health insurance; subject files pertaining to viatical settlements, financial planning, the New York State Health Care Reform bill, and the organizations New Yorkers for Affordable Health Care, and Affording Care.
Dates
- [ca. 1980-1992].
Creator
- Petersen, David. (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Early member of Mariposa Foundation and later the head of Affording Care, a non-profit organization to help persons with AIDS get health insurance by cashing in life insurance policies.
Extent
6.3 cubic feet. (6.3 cubic feet.)
COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT
Where possible, original folder headings have been retained. The following are a list of common acronyms found in the guide: BCBS: Blue Cross Blue Shield EBCBS: Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield GMHC: Gay Men's Health Center HIAA: Health Insurance Association of America PWAs: People With AIDS
SERIES LIST
Series I. Personal Materials Box 1
Series II. Mariposa Files Box 1
Series III. Insurance Boxes 1-5
ACT-UPHealth Care Changes/ReformsGovernment BenefitsFinancial PlanningMiscellaneous Insurance Materials
Series IV. AIDS and General Health Files Boxes 5-6
Series V. Miscellany Box 6
SEPARATED MATERIAL
The following periodicals have been seperated from the collection and cataloged individually:
AIDS Clinical Care, v.3 no.7
AIDS Forum, v.1 no.1
AIDS Patient Care, v.2 no.5
AIDS Treatment News, #159,160
AIDS Update (Dallas, TX), v.8 no.9
BETA, 1994:Dec., 1995: Dec.
The Blade (Washington DC), 1979: Oct. 25
Bulletin of the Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force, v.2:no.3,5
The Bulleting (Mercer Meidinger Hansen), no.156,159
Center Happenings, 1990:Jan/Feb
The Center Voice., v.6 no.2,6
Center Stage, 1989:Sept./Oct. 1990:Jan.
Cleis Press, Spring 1985 Catalog
Columbus Free Press, v.8 no.12
Community Prescription Service InfoPack, v.4 no.2
The Connection (LI, NY, NJ), v.2 no.14
CRIA Update, 1992: Spring, Summer
Critical Path AIDS Project, v.3 no.6-8
DIFFA On Line, v.1 no.3
Diseased Pariah News, #2
Gay Roots, the Elysian Fields Booklist, no.101-102
GMAD (Gay men of African Descent), 1989: Sept./Oct.
Elysian Fields recent acquisitions catalog, #18
Friends Newsletter, 1992:Fall
Gay Ohio Living Data, issue 2
The Gay Traveller.
Gays on the Hill, v.2:no.2, v.3:no.1
GGBC Newsletter, 1980: June, July 1981:Feb.
GLAAD Bulletin, 1989: Oct/Nov
GLAAD Newsletter, 1989: Fall
GMHC Annual Report, 1989/199
GMHC: The Volunteer, v.7: no.5-6, v.8 no.6, v.9:no.4
Good Times Bookshop, Catalog #1
Gotham, v.2:no.4,8-9,12,16
Hemophilia Outlook, 1993: Winter
High Gear. V.6 no.5
HIV Advisor, v.7 no.2
HIV Education Case Studies, no.4
HIV Frontline, #12
HIV Notebook, 1992:Oct/Nov/Dec, 1993:Winter
Homosexuelle Emanzipation. 1979:Mai/Juni,Juli/Aug.
It's Time. V.5:no.10, v.6:no.2, v.7:no.3,4,6
Living HIV, v.1 no.1
MACT/NY v.11: no.6
Michael's Thing Weekly, v.17:no.38
MOHR, v.3 no.9
Mothers' Voices, v.3 no.2
NAPWA News, v.3 no.4
National Minority AIDS Council Update, 1992: Sept./Oct.
News From Lambda, 1980: summer
The New Voice, issue546.
New York City News. v.1:no.4, v.2:no.4
NGTF Action Report, 1978:Dec., 1979:Feb.
Notes from the Underground, no.1,19-20,22-23,25-26,30-31
Ohio Gay Rights Coalition Newsletter, v.3 no.3
Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop Catalog, Spring 1979
Outfront, v.2 no.1
Outweek, no.42
Positively Aware, 1994:May
Provincetown Directory, 1982
Provincetown Positive, no.12
PWA Coalition Newsline, #57
Spartacus: Good News Letter, no.9
TA: Technical Assistance Newsletter, 1992: Aug/Sept
Walt Whitman Bookshop, Catalog no.2, v.1-2.
The Weekly News, v.3 no.21
Physical Description
Subject files, manuscripts, audiotapes.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Brenda MarstonAndrea Hektor
- Date completed:
- Mar. 2004
- EAD encoding:
- Andrea Hektor, Mar. 2004
- ACT-UP
- AIDS (Disease) -- Law and legislation.
- AIDS activists.
- Affording Care
- Gays -- Law and legislation.
- Health insurance -- Law and legislation.
- Life insurance -- Law and legislation.
- Mariposa Education and Research Foundation
- New York State Health Care Reform Bill.
- New Yorkers for Affordable Health Care
- Viatical settlements.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Brenda Marston, Andrea Hektor
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu